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The Dynamo Room!

The B. F. Keith’s Theatre in Boston was named after B.F. Keith (the ‘K’ in the future company RKO Pictures, though...

In the early 1920s, the motion picture industry had been experimenting with ways to bring sound into the moviegoing experience....

A prominent theatre muralist was Anthony Heinsbergen (1894-1981). At an early age Heinsbergen’s family moved to Los Angeles where he...

Movie theatres offered attendees to be treated like royalty while they visited for an afternoon or evening of entertainment. They...

Each theatre is a marvel of design and engineering. Building a sound structure is only part of the equation. Architects...

The C. Howard Crane designed Roosevelt enjoyed nearly 60 years as a stately movie palace in downtown Chicago. It opened...

The Pekin Theatre located at 27th and State on Chicago’s south side was one of the country’s first if not...

By Joseph R. DuciBella, ASID Some tidbits on the UPTOWN THEATRE, Chicago (Rapp & Rapp, 1925) came to light just...

Imagine it is the dog days of summer — you are overheated and would like a place to relax and...

This past year THS member and theatre documentarian Bob Sheldon passed away. After his passing, his daughter contacted the archive...